Cross and the Jukebox: Rascal Flatts – Mayberry

“Memory is hunger,” Ernest Hemingway once said, and I think he’s right. In every era, we battle the pull of nostalgia. We tend to overlook the grace and glory of the present, and ignore the brutality and banality of the past. It’s easy to imagine that we’d all be better off if we could just get back to the perceived “good ole days” of our our pasts.

This week on “The Cross and the Jukebox” we’ll examine this tendency as we think through the Rascal Flatts’ song “Mayberry,” and ask why it is that people tend to long for a perceived golden era. As we do, we’ll consider the way the gospel shows us that we’re made for nostalgia, but nostalgia of a different kind—not for an idealized past, but instead for a future, for a kingdom, for life eternal in a world made right.

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